<html><head><base href="x-msg://91/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As previously noted on this list, the First Nations people of Canada<div>are referring to their networking initiatives First Mile for First Nations.</div><div>To launch their special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics,</div><div>there will be a two hour web streamed presentation beginning at 1:30</div><div>today (Mountain states time). Below are links to the live stream, and</div><div>to the Journal, which has a number of excellent articles on First Nations</div><div>networking issues and projects (of potential interest to tribal and rural</div><div>communities in our region, plus an 'opinion' essay by me.</div><div>Richard</div><div><br><div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Brian Beaton" <<a href="mailto:brian.beaton@knet.ca">brian.beaton@knet.ca</a>></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>[ciresearchers] Online launch of First Mile Special Edition of JoCI - April 4 at 3:30pm Atlantic time</b></span></div><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-CA" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">Hello colleagues,<br><br>You are invited to an online gathering with participants from Canada, the USA including Hawaii and Alaska, Australia and France. The event will take place on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Friday, April 4 for two hours, starting at 15:30 Atlantic Canada time</b>. The agenda is below.<br><br>The occasion is the launch of the special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI) on the First Mile of broadband connectivity - communities doing it for themselves. Authors of the article will speak about their research and the communities they are working with. We will also launch the Community Informatics declaration: An Internet for the Common Good.<br><br>Please join us for this exciting and informative event by watching the live stream and participating in the chat, at this link that will go live at the start time of 15:30 Atlantic Canada time on April 4:<br><b><a href="http://live.knet.ca/fni" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://live.knet.ca/fni</a></b><br><br>The JoCI special issue will be launched April 4 at this link:<br><b><a href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej</a></b><br><br>An Internet for the Common Good: A Community Informatics Declaration<br><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/kfaacqn" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://tinyurl.com/kfaacqn</a><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; ">Visit the First Mile web site at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><a href="http://meeting.knet.ca/mp19/mod/book/view.php?id=4339" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://meeting.knet.ca/mp19/mod/book/view.php?id=4339</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>for additional information.<br><br><b>Agenda - April 4, 2014 - Atlantic Canada times shown</b><br><br>15:30-15:40:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Susan O'Donnell</b><br>*Welcome and introductions<br>*Purpose of the gathering<br>*Context of JoCI issue (and editorial)<br><br>15:40-15:45:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Aljona Zorina<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><br>*Assistant Professor, Information & Operation Management Department ESCP Europe, Paris, France<br>*Building Broadband Infrastructure from the Grassroots: the Case of Home LANs in Belarus<br><br>15:45-15:50:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Allan Bly</b><br>*Vitel, Edmonton, Canada<br>*Rural Communications: What is a Rural Municipality’s Role?<br><br>15:50-15:55:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Brian Beaton</b><br>*Graduate Student, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada<br>*The First Mile Approach to Community Services in Fort Severn First Nation<br><br>15:55-16:00:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Rob McMahon</b><br>*Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick Vancouver, Canada<br>*From the First Mile to Outer Space: Tamaani Satellite Internet in Northern Quebec<br><br>16:00-16:05:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Susan O'Donnell</b><br>*Researcher and Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada<br>*Developing an e-Community Approach to Community Services in Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation<br><br>16:05-16:10:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Michael Karanicolas</b><br>*Legal Officer for the Centre for Law and Democracy, Halifax, Canada<br>*Bridging the Divide: Understanding and Implementing Access to the Internet as a Human Right<br><br>16:10 - 16:15:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Nadine I. Kozak</b><br>*Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA<br>*Local Communities and Home Rule: Extending the Alberta SuperNet to Unserved Areas<br><br>16:15-16:20:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Heather Hudson<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><br>*Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA<br>*The First Mile Connectivity Consortium and Digital Regulation in Canada (#1106)<br><br>16:20-16:25:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Jenifer Sunrise Winter</b>, Assistant Professor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Wayne Buente</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Assistant Professor<br><b>Patricia Amaral Buskirk</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Assistant Professor<br>*School of Communications, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA<br>*Opportunities and Challenges for First-mile Development in Rural Hawaiian Communities<br><br>16:25-16:30:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Helena Grunfeld</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>*Research Scholar at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia<br>*ICT for sustainable development: an example from Cambodia<br><br>16:30-16:35<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Michael Gurstein</b><br>*Managing Director, Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, Vancouver, Canada<br>*Introduction to "An internet for the common good - a Community Informatics declaration" (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/kfaacqn" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://tinyurl.com/kfaacqn</a>)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>17:15-17:30:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Susan O’Donnell</b><br>*Discussion/questions<br>*Thanks and wrap-up</span><span style="color: rgb(40, 40, 40); "><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>Brian Beaton<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>Research Associate, Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>Researcher, First Nations Innovation Project<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>Graduate Student, Faculty of Education, Critical Studies, University of New Brunswick<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span>Contact Details</span></b><span>:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span>Snail Mail</span></b><span>: Box 104, Station A, Fredericton, NB, E3B 4Y2<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span>T</span></b><span>: 877-737-5638 x4522<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span>E</span></b><span>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:brian.beaton@unb.ca" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">brian.beaton@unb.ca</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>First Nations Innovation – Researching and Publishing First Nation ICT innovations –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://fn-innovation-pn.com/" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://fn-innovation-pn.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><div>
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